Phishing Emails and Excel Macros: Emotet Cooks New Infection Recipe
Palo Alto Networks unearthed an ongoing email campaign by Emotet operators, which now propagates through malicious Excel files while also implementing other obfuscation techniques. For this, attackers have used email thread hijacking and some other attack tactics. Experts revealed they have been delivering an Excel file with an obfuscated Excel 4.0 macro via socially engineered emails since December 2021.